excogitate

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It is always peculiarly fascinating, therefore, to subject to direct verification by observation, that is, to render palpable to the senses, something which we have only theoretically excogitated or theoretically surmised.

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Did ever a human being excogitate such blasphemous nonsense?

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Nature in a mirror is just nature, not nature thought out, excogitated, turned to human uses, interpreted in human words.

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By the time that I had excogitated all this, my feet had visited many square yards of palace, comprising bed-room, banqueting-room, chief lady's room, chapel, and so on.

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This is the most perfect form of absolutism ever yet excogitated in any man's brains.

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